Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The X-Men superhero won’t be the only one with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening damaged bones. Bone ...

Back in June, those brainy folks over at Germany’s Fraunhofer research group announced the development of Resobone, a material designed to replace the titanium plates used to patch holes in peoples’ ...

A porous titanium foam encourages bone in-growth in implant applications. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (Dresden) have developed a titanium foam ...

Developing the ideal structural medical implant is a complicated task, and different applications require different approaches. We have reported on the need for higher strength titanium that allows ...

Flexible yet rigid like a human bone, and immediately capable of bearing loads: A new kind of implant, made of titanium foam, resembles the inside of a bone in terms of its structural configuration.

Titanium alloy Ti6Al4V, was used by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Dresden, Germany. Scientists created the foam using a powder ...

I have a half-dozen titanium plates in my right forearm. They connect a bone graft taken from my left leg to the upper part of my radius and to my wrist. This system isn't perfect, but it does the job ...

A novel type of implant, Titanium foam, may help improve bone injury treatment, a new study has revealed. The foam resembles the inside of a bone in terms of its structural configuration. Not only ...

It’s not quite an adamantium skeleton, but new titanium foam could revolutionize bone implants. The material can integrate with the patient’s natural bone, reducing the stress on both the original ...

A new metallic foam made of titanium would now make fusion of metals to repair broken bones possible. The titanium foam opens the possibility of using malleable yet strong metal foams instead of hard ...

Flexible yet rigid like a human bone, and immediately capable of bearing loads: A new kind of implant, made of titanium foam, resembles the inside of a bone in terms of its structural configuration.